Thursday, March 19, 2020, Friday, March 20, 2020
Required reading: Sahlins (1981)
Supplemental readings: Sahlins (1988), Sahlins (1992), Sahlins (1996)
Sahlins, Marshall. 1981. Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press.
———. 1988. “Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of “the World System”.” Proceeedings of the British Academy 74: 1–51. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/74p001.pdf.
———. 1992. “The Economics of Develop-Man in the Pacific.” Res 21: 13–25.
———. 1996. “The Sadness of Sweetness: The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology.” Current Anthropology 37 (3): 395–428. doi:10.1086/204503.
ANTH 3601: Contemporary theory and anthropology
General info: About this seminar, Summary of topics and readings, The key tasks of collaborative editing
Seminars: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | B | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Assignments: Weekly reflections, Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base, Debate brief, Proposal of possible topics, Annotated bibliography, Literature review essay
Discussions:
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